Nightly Met Opera Streams by the Metropolitan Opera in New York (March 2021)

The Met has announced a special program of Nightly Met Opera Streams for the coming week. The viewers choice program will feature outstanding productions from the last 14 years of Live in HD and television broadcasts, starring the greatest opera singers.

Each production is available for 23 hours, from 13:30 CET (19:30 CET) to 0:30 the following day. The streams are available on metopera.com and all Met Opera on Demand apps.

More information can be found here and the program below:

Monday, March 15 – Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann: Starring Anna Netrebko, Kathleen Kim, Ekaterina Gubanova, Kate Lindsey, Joseph Calleja, and Alan Held, conducted by James Levine. Production by Bartlett Sher. From December 19, 2009.

Tuesday, March 16 – Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West: Starring Eva-Maria Westbroek, Jonas Kaufmann, and Željko Lučić, conducted by Marco Armiliato. Production by Giancarlo Del Monaco. From October 27, 2018.

Wednesday, March 17 – Donizetti’s Anna Bolena: Starring Anna Netrebko, Ekaterina Gubanova, Tamara Mumford, Stephen Costello, and Ildar Abdrazakov, conducted by Marco Armiliato. Production by Sir David McVicar. From October 15, 2011.

Thursday, March 18 – Philip Glass’s Akhnaten: Starring Dísella Lárusdóttir, J’Nai Bridges, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Aaron Blake, Will Liverman, Richard Bernstein, and Zachary James, conducted by Karen Kamensek. Production by Phelim McDermott. From November 23, 2019.

Friday, March 19 – Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Starring Joyce DiDonato, Juan Diego Flórez, Peter Mattei, John Del Carlo, and John Relyea, conducted by Maurizio Benini. Production by Bartlett Sher. From March 24, 2007.

Saturday, March 20 – Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin: Starring Renée Fleming, Ramón Vargas, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, conducted by Valery Gergiev. Production by Robert Carsen. From February 24, 2007.

Sunday, March 21 – Handel’s Agrippina: Starring Brenda Rae, Joyce DiDonato, Kate Lindsey, Iestyn Davies, Duncan Rock, and Matthew Rose, conducted by Harry Bicket. Production by Sir David McVicar. From February 29, 2020.

Omer Meir Wellber in Brüggemann’s Podcast (February 2021)

Omer Meir Wellber and Axel Brüggemann can now be heard in conversation in the podcast “Brüggemanns Begegnungen – das etwas andere Klassik-Gespräch mit Axel Brüggemann.” The podcast is presented by Klassik Radio.

Now available on Spotify.

Sonya Yoncheva on 27 February at 7PM CET from Kloster Schussenried with Met Stars Live in Concert (February 2021)

Soprano Sonya Yoncheva will perform a live concert on Saturday, February 27, 2021 at 7:00pm CET/1:00pm ET, from the Schussenried Cloister in southwest Germany as part of the Met Stars Live in Concert series. The program features a tour-de-force of arias from Verdi’s Aida and Il Trovatore; Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, La Bohème, and the rarely performed Le Villi; Dvořák’s Rusalka; and Handel’s Rinaldo. The full program is below. The recital will be streamed live via the Met website and will then be available on demand for 14 days. Yoncheva will perform from the Baroque library of the Schussenried Cloister, accompanied by Julien Quentin on piano.READ MORE

Anna Netrebko at the Spanish Riding School in Vienna with Met Stars Live in Concert (January 2021)

Russian soprano Anna Netrebko will perform a live concert from the historic Spanish Riding School in Vienna on Saturday, February 6, at 7:00 p.m. CET/1:00 p.m. ET, as part of the Met Stars Live in Concert series. The program will consist of works by Rachmaninoff, Rimski-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky, as well as Debussy, Dvořák, Fauré and Strauss. She will be accompanied by Pavel Nebolsin on the piano and by mezzo-soprano Elena Maximova for duets from Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann and Tchaikovsky’s Pique Dame.READ MORE

Concert-Stream with Leonidas Kavakos, Gautier Capuçon, Valery Gergiev and Münchner Philharmoniker (January 2021)

The year 2021 started for Leonidas Kavakos with a concert with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra under Valery Gergiev and Gautier Capuçon, which is now available as a video stream at www.mphil.de/stream from 23 January (7 p.m.) to 30 January (7 p.m.).

The concert will feature the Concerto for Violin, Violoncello and Orchestra in A minor, op. 102, and the Symphony No. 3 in F major, op. 90, by Johannes Brahms.

Omer Meir Wellber

Omer Meir Wellber celebrated the turn of the year from 2020 to 2021 with a special program at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo. “Last year we dedicated the New Year’s Eve concert to the many ethnic minorities in Palermo and their artistic and musical characteristics; this year we propose the theme of diversity of genres and genders, to make it a ground for musical confrontation, beyond any predictable certainty. “, Wellber describes the program of the evening, which included, among others, Neapolitan songs and works by Haydn, Wagner and Mozart, jazz songs and spoken texts by Eli Danker, as well as singing and scenic realization by Ernesto Tomasini, soprano Carmen Giannattasio and baritone Markus Werba. The innovative concert program can be viewed here:

On 26 January, Teatro Massimo opens the 2021 season with a special production with Omer Meir Wellber and Johannes Erath. With “Il crepuscolo dei sogni,” Wellber and Erath trace a dreamlike path between light and shadow, from Strauss’s “Traum durch die Dämmerung” to Schubert’s “Winterreise,” from the shadows of “Verleumdung” in Rossini’s The Barber of Seville and the ascent in Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov. In between, the gaze continually wanders from Italian to German and Russian opera, from the Baroque with Purcell and Monteverdi to the twentieth century with Bernstein and Korngold. More information can be found here.

In November 2020 Chandos released the first joint recording by Omer Meir Wellber and the BBC Philharmonic, “Music of Israel” with works by Ben-Haim. Another recording was released by Hyperion with Steven Isserlis and works by Tavener.

In addition, Wellber will become Musikdirektor of the Volksoper Wien when Lotte de Beer’s directorship begins on September 1, 2022. In addition to directing new productions and repertoire performances, he will be primarily responsible for the musical aspects of the house and the development of the ensemble, orchestra and chorus for five seasons. As early as spring 2021, he will help shape the preparations of the new management.

Jan Vogler

The renowned cellist and Intendant of the Dresden Music Festival Jan Vogler released his new album with SONY Classical in June 2020 – combining the cello concerto “Three Continents” by Nico Muhly (USA), Sven Helbig (D) and Zhou Long (CHN) and Shostakovich’s Second Cello Concerto, the recording features an exciting combination of musical tradition and innovative awakening.

To create new opportunities for artists during the global pandemic and at the same time technically develop the virtual concert experience, Jan Vogler developed the Dreamstage livestream platform together with Thomas Hesse and Scott Chasin. In August 2020, Jan Volger opened it with a concert featuring pianist Hélène Grimaud. In addition to enabling artists to organize virtual concerts on their own, what makes Dreamstage special is the contact between artists and viewers. Through interactive features such as a live chat and virtual applause, an exchange during the concert is possible. So far, Dreamstage has hosted concerts from a wide variety of genres, including classical, hip hop, country and world music.

On 23 January , Jan Vogler will join pianist Tiffany Poon for a concert of works by Bach and Beethoven at Dreamstage. Proceeds from the concert will be donated to the Associated Musicians of Greater New York Emergency Relief Fund.